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Check it out! Angela Tucker, Assistant Professor of Documentary Expression with SouthDocs and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, is featured on a new episode of Making Media Now.
#Documentary #PBS
Join us March 5th at 6pm for An Evening with Grace Lee! The event will take place in Barnard Observatory and is free and open to the public. We hope you'll join us for this thoughtful and timely discussion about public media and documentary storytelling.
#SouthernStudies #Documentary
Want to learn more about grad programs at the UM's Center for the Study of Southern Culture? The Center invites prospective grad students to learn about the MA program in Southern Studies and MFA program in Doc Expression in a virtual open house! Register here: olemiss.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
There's still time! The priority funding deadline for our MA & MFA programs is Feb. 1, 2026. We can't wait to work with you!
#Documentary #Film #Photography #Audio #Photo #Storytelling #SouthernStudies #GradSchool #Mississippi
The Center for the Study of Southern Culture and SouthDocs presents the Fall 2025 Documentary Showcase on Dec. 5 at 6pm at Barnard Observatory. This event celebrates the doc work of undergraduate & graduate students of CSSC. This catered event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!
A perfect fall day for class outside! Prof. Shiraz Armed guides his fieldwork students as they build on their interviewing skills.
Want to share stories about the South? MFA & MA priority funding deadline is Feb. 1, 2026. Apply today!
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Dr. Andy Harper’s article “Conceiving Nature: The Creation of Montana’s Glacier National Park,” first published in 2010 for Montana Magazine, was recently cited in George Bristol’s book “Glacier National Park: A Culmination of Giants.” Great research keeps inspiring new works and ideas!
Congrats Angela Lynn Tucker! Her film "The Inquisitor" was awarded a Special Mention at this year's 34th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival!
#Documentary #FilmFestival #FilmScreening #Film #HSFF34
Check it out! Dr. Cassandra Hawkins wil be presenting her research, "Palimpsests of Strength," during the Resistance and Resilience in Black Women's Networks panel at the Black Women and Girls in ntellectual Thought Symposium on October 29-30 2025, at Tougaloo College
Did you miss Elaine's Q&A? No worries! Watch it on the CSSC's YouTube channel now!
#Documentary #Film #FilmScreening #DocumentaryFilm #KingCoal #SouthTalks
We've got quite the line up this October!! Check out our film guide! #Documentary #DocumentaryFilm #Film #FilmScreening #Filmmaking #Mississippi #FilmGuide
✨️MFA Alum Spotlight ✨️ Greta is hosting a cyanotype workshop Saturday September 20, 1-3pm at the Arts Center of Mississippi in Jackson! Sign up using the link in Greta's bio.
#Cyanotype #Workshop #Photography #Photo #JacksonMS #Mississippi #MSArts
“Beyond Borders” has been selected for its first screening at the 2025 Cset URegina’s Festival of Arts and Discourse (FOAD) in September! Congrats, Samson!!
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“Afrissippi” has been selected for another screening - the 2025 Music Imbizo Film Festival! Congrats, Peter!!
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MFA Alum Peter Muvunyi’s film ‘Afrissippi’ has been selected for the 2025 Bijou Music Festival. Congrats Peter!!
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2025 Memorialization Gathering, Sep. 5-7, 2025, Oxford, Mississippi. The 2025 Memorialization Gathering, hosted by the Lafayette Community Remembrance Project (LCRP), brings together communities engaged in truth-telling and historical racial justice work. Register at oneoxford.org/memorializat....
Whoop Whoop! Logan Kirkland successfully defended his MFA thesis, “Wasted.” He’s seen here with his committee Andy Harper (Chair), Vanessa Gregory, and Melanie Ho. 🎓🎉 🥳 👏
#MFAThesis #DocumentaryFilm #Film #Documentary #StoryTelling
One of America’s most renowned photographers Sally Mann presents the 5th annual Ann J. Abadie Lecture in Southern Studies as part of this summer’s Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. This event is free and open to the public. For more details visit southernstudies.olemiss.edu.
✨Alum Spotlight✨Tonight is the opening of “Warped Southern Myth,” a solo exhibition by Greta Koshenina at the Arts Center of Mississippi! Greta’s artist talk is tonight 6-7pm and her exhibition will be up through July 27. Make sure to check it out!
#Documentary #Art #Artist #Exhibition #Mississippi
#EyesontheSouth | The Body Politic | Christopher C. Fisher
Documenting Southern funeral traditions, Fisher captures how the spirit of the deceased “remains eternal, carried forward by the love and resilience of the community left behind.”
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Check it out! MFA candidate Christopher C. Fisher’s project “The Body Politic” is featured in Oxford American’s #EyesontheSouth series! (@oxfordamerican.bsky.social)
Find the full narrative here: oxfordamerican.org/eyes/the-bod....
#Documentary #Photography #Photo #Storytelling #OxfordAmerican
Y'all make sure to tune in!! Congrats, Greta!!
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“Country Punk Black” has been selected for the 2025 JXN Film Festival! 🎬 Congratulations Christopher & NEEN.!!!
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Want to share stories about the South? Southern Studies graduate students can pursue a documentary track MA degree as well as an MFA in Documentary Expression. Apply today!
#MFA #Documentary #Film #Filmmaking #Photography #Photo #Editing #Audio #Design #Storytelling #SouthernStudies #Mississippi
“Within the Frame” is a new series we’ve started here at SouthDocs. The goal of this series is to highlight the documentary photo work being created by our students, faculty, and staff. Our next look is at “Fishers of Men” by MFA candidate Dr. Christopher C. Fisher. Learn more-southdocs.org/showcase
“Within the Frame” is a new series we’re beginning here at SouthDocs. The goal of this series is to highlight the documentary photography work being created by our students, faculty, and staff. Our next look is at “Building Pressure” by undergraduate student Elaine Baker.
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“Within the Frame” is a new series we’re beginning here at SouthDocs. The goal of this series is to highlight the documentary photo work being created by our students, faculty, and staff.
This first collection focuses on S ST 534, taught by Assistant Prof of Practice in Doc Expression Shiraz Ahmed.
Logline vs. Synopsis – What’s the Difference?
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Y’all did it!! ❤️ 🎉 🎓
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